Thursday, February 4, 2016

A few years ago at the Tuesday night auction I go to with my friend when I am 1515 I saw a great little shelf

It was walnut and the scroll work on the side reminded me of something?

My Mom's treasured walnut end tables.

One of the first things my Mom and Dad got when setting up housekeeping in 1947

After my Mother died I could not part with them and one I used in my spare bedroom as a side table.

But when I bought 1515 I thought perfect!

One on each side of the couch at 1515 and you can see the shelf

Recently I was scanning old slides

1957 my sweet Daddy and to his left one of the tables.

This was in their apartment

Moving on to the 1970's

1971

Myself and my beloved dog

Cumberland Queen Ann

and there is the end table

Dad taking goofy pictures of Mom and I with the end table there again

There are so many things I look back at and see something from my parents or Grandparents I use to this day.

So back to the shelf

It is there to honor the women who came before me along with my collection of Remember Me cups

all Grandmothers with the exception of Aunt Annie on the rt

My 2nd Great Grandmother Martha Houston Mitchell Galbreath

she was a true pioneer woman. She raised 13 children, learning herbs healing effects from the local Indians in Illinois in the 1820's, her father survived the Revolutionary War Battle of Guilford Courthouse fought on his parents plantation.

So yes I Remember you

Martha's son James Adam Galbreath with his bride Catherine Fitzhue Wilson on their wedding in 1886. She is the little girl in the tin type about the time she lost her mother.

I think of them as Mama and Papa because of my Aunt Annie's diaries.

They lived at 1515 with my Grandparents during the depression

after they had to sell their farm and house in town.

Catherine's Mother and Grandmother

Mary Hickman Wilson died in childbirth, this is the only picture I have of her.

The nurse in me wonders why did she have a droop mouth,

did she have something that contributed to her death in childbirth at the age of 34 such as a stoke?

Her mother Catherine Sherer Hickman is on the rt and that is a card celebrating her 90th birthday.

I had a post once about her birthday part where her Grandaughters baked a 90 layer cake.

My Grandmother thought of her as her Grandmother even though she was her Great Grandmother.

Through my Aunt Annie's diaries I know so much about her even with her being my 3rd Great Grandmother.

I do Think of Them

My Paternal Grandmothers were wonderful examples for me to live by.

We all have hardships and happiness they make us who we are today.

I truly believe our ancestors made us who we are even if we never knew them.

So blessed to know them from Aunt Annie's diaries and to have their pictures to reflect on at 1515.

About Me

Enjoying the simple things in life. Watching the hummingbird, finding a new cousin while working on my genealogy, cutting my roses, finding a new treasure at a antique store....NOW that is excitment to me!
I have a 2 story Victorian with a wrap around porch, where my husband and I live with our dog Greta and cat Boots. I had to, it had a pink door the color of my Maternal Grandmothers house and pocket doors like my Paternal Grandparents house! In 2009 I bought my Paternal Grandparents home 2 hours away, in the town where I was born, we call it 1515. It was meant to bring my cousins and I together more often but it has been much more than that.
Oh it is a sentimental life!